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NEXUS Pipeline Construction Begins

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Oil Prices Rise As Supply Glut Shows Signs of Wearing Down

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Jackie Stewart • Energy In Depth-Ohio est Virginia University (WVU) has just released its second geologic study relating to the Appalachian Basin. This latest study addresses the feasibility of storing natural gas liquids (NGL) in states along the Ohio River based on the region’s geology. In short, the study finds Ohio and West Virginia are prime spots for storage, and if such infrastructure is developed, it could provide significant economic benefits in the Appalachian Basin.

“As the play develops, one can expect an increase in productivity as the best areas are discovered.” (p. 165) It also indicated that the vast Point Pleasant Formation of Ohio has exceptionally high recoverability potential compared to other areas of the Utica, due to its unique chemical composition:

“Evaluation of bulk mineralogy, Total Organic Carbon amounts, carbonate content and thermal maturity data all point to an interbedded limestone and organic-rich shale interval in the This latest WVU report, when coupled with WVU’s 2015 study Point Pleasant Formation as the preferred drilling target” of the that found the Utica Shale formation has much more recoverable Utica Shale play (p. 179). oil and natural gas than previously thought, could also be foreshadowing an entirely new phase of oil and gas development And, while it’s only been two years since the study was released, it in Appalachia’s future. appears WVU is on the right track with its geological assessment of Utica Shale exploration potential. It should be noted that neither study takes into account some variable economic realities such as commodity prices, taxation, During the project’s research period (2012-2013) Utica Shale regulatory issues related to exploration and production, or NGL drilling was at its peak. Then, drilling practically came to a storage. However, both studies do provide a clearer picture of a screeching halt due to low commodity prices. However, even scenario previously unimagined in the region. with a significant reduction in drilling over the past two years, Utica Shale production has continued to surge, as is evident by In 2015, WVU foreshadowed that the Utica Shale could be Ohio’s recent second quarter production results, which show “comparable” to the Marcellus. According to the study, the Utica Shale natural gas production rose by 16 percent compared Utica has an astounding 782 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of technically to second quarter 2016 production. Utica production also recoverable natural gas – more than 20 times the 38 Tcf previously increased by four percent this past quarter when compared to discovered in a 2012 United States Geological Survey (USGS) the first quarter of 2017, for a total of 388,560,451 billion cubic assessment. feet (Bcf). In addition, the study predicted that many newly-found drilling In fact, this summer was a milestone for the Appalachian Basin locations will produce hydrocarbons more efficiently than in — which includes both the Utica and Marcellus shales — as it some previous areas, writing that, was the only region in the country to see natural gas production growth in 2016, with a combined total of 2.5 Bcf of natural gas per day (Bcf/d). The Energy Information Administration (EIA) September Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) also shows that natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin is accounting for 42 percent of the total natural gas production nationwide! These impressive figures are notable considering the Appalachian Basin would provide the feedstock for a storage hub. Also noteworthy is the fact that the industry had pumped $22 billion into Ohio’s economy alone back when the 2015 WVU study was released. Fast forward to 2017 and that number has more than doubled in just two years, swelling to over $50.4 billion, according to Cleveland State University. In other words, WVU’s first geological study and foreshadowing of things to 4

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come has in fact started to become an gas for future use and the economic reality. rate at which gas inventory can be withdrawn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; known While the history of underground natural in industry parlance as its gas storage is not directly covered in deliverability rate. As of 2015, WVUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report, the first successful project nine percent of the gas storage was completed in 1915 in Ontario, Canada, facilities in the United States with the United States developing its were in mined salt caverns; own the following year in Buffalo, N.Y. this number does not include Today, the U.S. has more underground gas mined hard-rock caverns that store liquid petroleum storage projects than any other country. natural gases (LPGs), five of According to EIA, as of 2015, West Virginia which are in Ohio. had 31 existing storage fields totaling 529 Bcf of natural gas, Ohio had 24 totaling The latest WVU geology 578 Bcf, and Pennsylvania had 41 totaling study found that there are a 771 Bcf. Clearly, underground natural lot more opportunities that gas storage is not new across the country, exist to develop additional underground and with 96 existing storage fields, that is natural storage facilities and infrastructure, especially true in the Appalachian Basin. The 181-page study was conducted to The region itself is ideal for this type help foster the use of local NGL found in of storage of NGL. Two important the Marcellus and Utica shales. The study characteristics of an underground storage specifically highlights the geological reservoir are its capacity to hold natural rationale for underground natural gas

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such as ethane has not previously existed. Massive petrochemical projects like the Shell ethane cracker in Pennsylvania and the proposed PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker project in Ohio will change that dynamic, and by doing so, the need for NGL storage will become critical. The WVU study explains the need to keep NGL local this way:

“Because of the amount of natural gas liquids (NGL) contained in this production, development of these shale plays has the potential to have a large impact on the petrochemical industry. In the United States, petrochemical projects are expanding. Industry investment and jobs have increased; the value of NGLs has increased; and fractionation capacity has increased as new processing plants come on line. The great, untapped resource from the Marcellus and Utica play areas is ethane. Due to the lack of a local market providing a higher value alternative, most of the ethane from the Marcellus and Utica is rejected, that is, left in the gas stream for sale. For the ethane that is recovered, it is all leaving the area and going to Canada, Texas, Louisiana and export markets in Europe to support the petrochemical industry in those locations.” The American Chemistry Council (ACC) recently released a study which speaks more specifically to the issue of the need for storage, as explained by Cal Dooley, President of ACC,

region has distinct benefits that could make it a major petrochemical and plastic resin-producing zone. Proximity to a world-class supply of raw materials from the Marcellus/Utica and Rogersville shale formations and to the manufacturing markets of the Midwest and East Coast has already led several companies to announce investment projects, and there is potential for a great deal more.” The Appalachian Basin also happens to be in the heart of historic areas of manufacturing. For example, according to the West Virginia Department of Commerce, “With four of the world’s largest chemical firms and other chemical manufacturers in the Chemical Alliance Zone (CAZ), West Virginia is home to one of the highest concentration of chemical manufacturers in the world.” Similarly, Ohio is already a leader nationwide for plastics manufacturing, and has long been hailed the “Rubber Capital of the World.”

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While some may assume a hub means a giant facility that stores NGL, the Appalachian Storage Hub, as defined by the WVU study, is in fact a combination of several storage facilities utilizing various methods of storage options from minedrock caverns, to depleted gas reservoirs, and especially underground salt domes. These storage centers would connect to various proposed ethane cracker plants via a series of pipelines. In that regard, the “The Appalachian hub would include practically the entire

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Appalachian region from Pennsylvania, includes three West Virginia, Ohio and even down to pipelines to a Kentucky. new NGL storage facility, up and In other words, the hub is not one location running by 2019. or one facility, it’s more similar to the Mountaineer NGL term “Silicon Valley,” which is a figure of will be located in speech used to describe America’s high- the Salina F4 Salt tech economic sector. Today, Silicon Valley formation. The salt employs about a quarter of a million IT caverns will be workers, thanks to a network of companies capable of holding and locations in close proximity to each 500,000 barrels of ethane, butane or other regionally. propane every six Similarly, the WVU study shows that to eight months underground natural gas storage could once in operation. easily support a regional Appalachian This project will Storage Hub which would span along the be the first active Ohio River across sections of Pennsylvania, A p p a l a c h i a n Storage Hub facility. Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. WVU’s 2017 Geologic Hub Foreshadowing vs. Economic Realities With the Shell ethane cracker plant in Pennsylvania well underway and news of a final decision by PTT Global Chemical to construct another ethane cracker in Ohio, it should not be surprising that the private sector has already determined the need for underground NGL storage. More than $20 million has already been spent toward a major NGL storage project in Clarington, Ohio, with room for expansion to the north, south, and across the river in West Virginia, which will be called the Mountaineer NGL Storage facility. This facility was featured in the WVU study as a key geologic site for development, and the president of that facility, David Hooker, said,

potential has turned into a very real shale renaissance, and it appears that the same In addition to the investment money scenario may be happening now with the already being spent in the region, the Appalachian Hub. ACC study found that the creation of NGL storage infrastructure in the region could yield up to 100,000 permanent new jobs, and up to $2.9 billion in new federal, • Flatbed Trailers state and local tax • Dropdeck Trailers revenue annually. • Grain Trailers U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) • Tag Trailers has described the • Detachable Trailers hub this way,

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as vibroseis trucks, or more commonly called thumpers. The trucks use sound waves to determine if there is assive four-wheel any desirable resources in the assive vehicles have ground. been meandering around Ohio 95 for just about a month. Orange cables with occasional orange boxes about the size of They move at a slow pace, about a lunch box are stretched along three in a row and searching Ohio 95 from the Richland for two resources — oil and County line on the west to gas, according to the Ashland around Funk on the eastern County Engineer’s Office. side of the county. A trailer Thumpers on Ohio 95 just west of Perrsyville. Photo Credit: Tom with a small antenna structure Puskar, GateHouse Media Ohio The trucks are formally known is located near where the thumpers are working. have conducted searches previously. Precision Geophysical, out of Millersburg, is conducting a “It has been going on regional seismic survey. periodically for 15 to 20 years,” he said. Steve McCrossin, of the company’s Millersburg office, The company needs to get said the company conducts permits from the engineer’s these surveys about four or office if they are working on five times a year in the county county right of ways. If they and will take about six weeks are working on state roads, to complete. a permit is not needed and the office may not necessarily McCrossin said the survey was know if they are working, more just to see what is in the Meixner said. area. Mohican Basin Landowner “It’s just a speculative survey,” Association, a group formed he said. when oil and gas companies were rushing to sign leases with McCrossin would not say area property owners several much beyond that. years ago, has run several ads in the Times-Gazette in recent Ashland County engineer weeks. The ads suggested Ed Meixner said his that people consult with legal understanding was that the counsel before entering any vehicles were being used lease agreements. Attempts searching for oil and gas and to reach the group were that they and other companies unsuccessful. 8

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Dino Grandoni • The Washington Post o far, President Donald Keystone XL and Dakota Trump has given the Access pipelines. Check. It said oil and natural gas it wanted federal regulations industry quite a bit of to be reviewed “holistically.” what it wants. Check. In a call to reporters just two days after Trump’s election, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest U.S. oil and gas lobbying group, laid out its wish list for the new administration.

have been the low-hanging fruit. API has another ask of Trump that will be harder for the president to fulfill: preserving a key investmentdispute provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which from Trump’s perspective is a “jobkilling” trade deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States.

One of Trump’s many jobcreating promises during the campaign was to make it easier for companies to extract and deliver fossil fuels, so making good on these requests was a win-win for the White House and industry. “We’re still optimistic that at API said it wanted Trump the end of the day, this will be to reconsider the stop on the Although a bushelful, that may handled appropriately,” Jack Gerard, API president and chief executive, said during a teleconference with reporters on Friday. “If it isn’t, I think all of us, including those of us in the oil and gas industry, are going to have to look long and Let our knowledgeable and hard at the situation.”

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government for the investment you think you lost. ISDS is meant to inspire confidence in corporations making investments in foreign countries. But the arbitration system draws ire from many corners. Most environmentalists don’t like how ISDS hamstrings governments that are attempting to curtail pollution. And some conservatives don’t like how ISDS undermines national sovereignty by having tribunals of corporate lawyers, not judges, hear cases. And there is where the strange bedfellows are made. ISDS is a feature of many free-trade agreements, including NAFTA. But the White House is putting together a proposal to allow the United States, Mexico and Canada to withdraw from the North American arbitration system at will, the Wall Street Journal reported in August.

Here’s what API (along with many other business groups) is asking for: that Trump push to preserve a system of resolving international trade disputes called investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS. But big businesses, oil and gas included, don’t want the boat Here’s how ISDS works: rocked. With the third round Say you’re a multinational of NAFTA renegotiations corporation that decides to underway as of Saturday, U.S. invest in a foreign nation. industrial groups are lining You put in your investment up to preserve the arbitration - it could be a gold mine in system that, according to API’s Indonesia or a luxury resort Gerard, “provides what we in Egypt - but suddenly, the need in the U.S. to secure that foreign government issues investment overseas.” a regulation that you think hampers your business. Under Of particular concern to oil ISDS, you can sue that foreign companies is Mexico. When GasandOilMag.com

NAFTA was first signed 23 years ago, Mexico had a nationalized energy sector. Since then, Mexico has begun selling off oil and gas fields. Foreign investors, including ExxonMobil, want ISDS protection if they are going to drill there.

multinational oil firms can sometimes dwarf the gross domestic products of developing nations in which they operate, those companies “are in a position to coerce smaller countries” through ISDS, Waren added. He said most of the environmental community wishes to see ISDS stripped “That in many respects has opened the out of trade deals altogether. door to a flood of new private investment that’s going into Mexico to help further Since the United States’s own fracking develop their oil, gas and natural resource boom, natural gas exports via pipeline sector,” said Cal Dooley, president and have doubled between 2009 and 2016, chief executive of the American Chemistry according to the U.S. Energy Information Council and a former congressman. “It is Administration. Almost all that increase even more important that we see ISDS be in exported gas went to Mexico. NAFTA clarified in how it pertains to the energy lets that gas flow across with no tariffs. sector in Mexico.” Which is why, even if you set ISDS aside, William Waren, senior trade analyst at the oil and gas sector has responded Friends of the Earth, said that energy firms forcefully to comments from the president are particularly assertive in using ISDS. suggesting he is willing the scrap the agreement altogether. “Just about the biggest and most frequent plaintiffs are big oil companies.” Waren “Personally, I don’t think we can make a said. Given that annual profits at the largest deal,” Trump said at an Arizona rally in

Or as Trump tweeted about the “worst trade deal ever made” in late August after the first round of negotiations: If persuading the president fails, the oil and gas industry can always lobby Congress, which will have to ratify any changes to NAFTA. Though it has many critics in both chambers, Congress has acted previously to protect ISDS. For example, in 2015, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a strong opponent of ISDS, introduced an amendment designed to stymie the Obama administration from including ISDS in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free-trade agreement for 11 nations along the Pacific Ocean. Her effort failed.

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NEXUS Pipeline Construction Begins

Shane Hoover • GateHouse Media Ohio EXUS Gas Transmission made plans to start building its natural gas pipeline in October. On Oct. 11, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave NEXUS permission to begin construction, about a month after approving the $2.1 billion project.

NEXUS is a 36-inch diameter natural gas pipeline that will carry up to 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day from the Utica and Marcellus shales to users in Ohio, Michigan and Canada.

Commission to proceed with construction activities in Ohio and Michigan,” NEXUS spokesman Adam Parker wrote in an email. “This receipt marks another key milestone that authorizes the project to commence construction activities in the days ahead and keeps the project on track to meet its targeted in-service late in the third quarter of 2018.” Construction will start this month, and the company expects the process to take seven to 10 months, but weather, terrain and time of year will factor into the timeline. Some landowners and communities along the NEXUS route have fought the pipeline, citing economic, environmental and safety concerns. The Coalition to Re-route NEXUS (CORN) and the city of Green proposed alternate routes that would have seen the pipeline built across southern Stark County.

The 255-mile pipeline will start near Hanoverton in Columbiana County CORN and Green continued to and connect to existing pipelines in challenge aspects of the project in Michigan. federal court and through appeals to FERC or state regulators. Locally, the route crosses Washington, Nimishillen, Marlboro and Lake With the construction permit, FERC townships in Stark County, and then once again showed its contempt for the enters the city of Green in southern rights of property owners, disrespect Summit County. for the federal courts and arbitrary and capricious nature of FERC‚Äôs own Detroit-based DTE Energy and Spectra procedures, Medina County resident Energy, which merged this year with CORN member Paul Gierosky wrote in Enbridge, a Canadian company, are an email. partners in the project. FERC approved NEXUS in late August. David J. Eigel, a Stark County resident and CORN member, wrote that FERC’s “After more than three years of public order wasn’t a surprise. and agency review, we are pleased to have received this authorization “I do however remain steadfast from the Federal Energy Regulatory that the process needs to give more 12 OhioGas&Oil

consideration to property owner rights and to safety considerations,” Eigel wrote in an email. “The effort undertaken by CORN and the city of Green to identify a better and safer route was very professionally done and was clearly a better alternative.” The permit comes with limits on local construction work. Before crossing the Stark Parks Iron Horse Trail in Washington Township and the North Country National Scenic Trail in Columbiana County, NEXUS has to file site-specific plans that identify detours, signage, public notices and consideration of avoiding days of peak use, or justify why such measures aren‚Äôt needed. FERC also wants more information before NEXUS uses horizontal drilling to bore beneath highways, rivers and other obstacles. NEXUS will have to consult with state agencies to locate any inactive, abandoned or orphaned oil and natural gas wells within 500 feet of a horizontal drilling site. The company also must affirm that it will monitor drillingfluid pressure while boring beneath wetlands and bodies of water. Two million gallons of drilling slurry spilled in April while workers on the separate Rover Pipeline bored beneath the Tuscarawas River in Bethlehem Township. NEXUS will have to file with FERC a risk assessment for inadvertent slurry leaks at sites where the bore passes through loose soil, including where NEXUS crosses the Tuscarawas River in Summit County, or re-route the pipeline through bedrock. GasandOilMag.com

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hydrocarbons into more than 6,000 familiar products “OOGEEP offered teachers a unique real-world exposure such as plastics, soaps, medicines, synthetic fibers and to Ohio geology and how it pertains to energy resources rubber. and opportunities for student learning and careers,” said science teacher Joyce Morrell of Joseph Welty Middle “The OOGEEP workshop provides teachers with an School in New Philadelphia. opportunity to obtain information that can be used in the classroom,” said science teacher Mike Gray of River “OOGEEP provided an amazing opportunity for me to View High School. “The workshop is presented in a fun learn in a hands-on geological adventure,” said Laura teaching environment that can provide a good learning Dotterer of River Elementary School in Hannibal. “I have experience for the students.” gained a wealth of knowledge to take back and share with my students.” “OOGEEP opened my eyes to the oil and gas industry in Ohio,” said science teacher Olivia Muntz of Union Scioto On the second day of each workshop, teachers were Middle School in Chillicothe. “It was very informative provided with unique field trips that featured tours and an experience I can take to the classroom, bridging to a variety of oil and gas related facilities as well as the gap between education and real-world experience.” opportunities to collect fossils and personally view geological outcrops of shale formations. The OOGEEP Geology workshop provided lesson plans and hands-on activities based on the new Physical The 2017 summer workshop field trips included a Geology Standards that until recently had been removed variety of oil and gas related stops at Antero Resources from K-12 required curriculum. The lessons and hands- Corporation, Ascent Resources, LLC, DeepRock Disposal on experiments featured subjects such as the Earth’s Solutions, Kimble Companies, Ken Miller Supply, Inc. layers, continental drift and plate tectonics, mineralogy and Rice Energy Inc. and energy resources. Special speakers included Mac Swinford, a retired geologist formerly with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey; and Greg Mason, a geologist and the Exploration and Production Manager with the The Energy Cooperative. “The first-hand experience will help me bring the earth science curriculum to life,” added science teacher Mike Liston of Tolles Career and Technical Center in Plain City. All participating Ohio teachers received lesson plans, classroom lab supplies, geological maps, digital resources, rock and mineral kits, videos and lots of other educational materials. Teachers also qualified for continuing education unit (CEU) credits and an optional graduate credit from Ashland University.

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Oil Prices Rise As Supply Glut

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Jessica Summers • Bloomberg il jumped following signals that the world’s The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, a gauge of the dollar biggest crude exporters may extend or deepen against 10 major peers, fell as much as 0.5 percent. supply cuts. A Bloomberg survey showed that both U.S. crude supplies Futures advanced as much as 3 percent in New and distillate stockpiles probably shrank by 2 million barrels York on Oct. 10, the biggest gain in two weeks. OPEC each last week. At the Cushing, Oklahoma, pipeline hub, Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said more nations crude inventories likely increased by 1.8 million barrels, may join the production accord the group hammered out according to a separate forecast compiled by Bloomberg. with Russia and other exporters in late 2016, while the Saudis plan to restrict their own sales by a record amount within The industry-funded American Petroleum Institute will weeks. The falling value of the U.S. dollar also spurred some release its inventory data on Wednesday, October 11th, a day investors to buy because crude is priced in the currency. later than usual, due to the U.S. Columbus Day Holiday. “There is a sense that we’re going to get a deal done,” Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, said by telephone. Saudi Arabia’s announcement that it’ll sell fewer barrels than ordered next month “is a sign that they are going to continue to be serious. If you are going to cut to your customers in November, it’s probably a clear sign that you expect these production cuts are going to continue.” Oil has struggled to hold above $50 a barrel as rising output from U.S. shale explorers diminished the impact of supply curbs implemented by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies such as Russia. Macquarie Bank said OPEC probably will extend output cuts through at least the third quarter of next year and perhaps to the end of 2018.

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GateHouse Ohio Media pipeline worker died following an incident last month that caused a massive natural gas leak and prompted authorities to evacuate a neighborhood.

10:15 a.m., and the odor of natural gas soon drifted over Navarre more than 4 miles away. The incident happened during maintenance work at a metering station on part of the Columbia Gas Transmission System, but the cause is unknown, according to the owner, TransCanada.

Wesley J. Johnson, 60, of Wooster, died at the scene, according to the Stark County Sheriff’s Office. Officials believe a cap on the end of a pipeline gave “Tragically, we can way, killing him. confirm that one employee was fatally injured,” A second worker was TransCanada spokesman evaluated at the scene but David Dodson wrote in an refused medical treatment, email. “We are working Erie Valley Fire & Rescue with local responders to Assistant Chief Tom Bragg ensure family members said. The worker was able are properly notified. Our to guide firefighters to thoughts and prayers are turn off the valves to the with the family, friends and pipeline. colleagues.”

and forward findings to the U.S. Department of Transportation, which will decide what action to take.

home in the 5100 block of Hudson Drive SW. Her 24 acres of land abut a mining area next to the metering station. She was not John Williams, director of ordered to evacuate. PUCO’s service monitoring and enforcement “I thought they were department, said he blasting,” she said. “It didn’t know how long was just a boom. Then we the investigation would heard what sounding like require. equipment running.”

“It’s always hard to tell,” Rice later realized it was Williams said. “All of these the natural gas escaping are very unique from one from the pipe. to another.” Another neighbor, Dave A loud hissing noise could Stoffer, heard what be heard from the incident sounded like a jet. scene, which emergency personnel blocked off. “I looked outside to see if Thick black smoke was there was a jet real close to visible for miles. The smoke the roof tops,” said Stoffer, a was caused by oil, used Seeman Street SW resident. to lubricate the pipeline, “I thought it was going to mixing with the natural land, but it just kept going. Reports of an explosion The Public Utilities gas, and not a fire, Bragg I thought maybe a farmer in the 8400 block of Beth Commission of Ohio will said. was running machinery.” Avenue SW came in around investigate the incident While crews worked to Columbia Gas Transmission turn off the gas, emergency is a 12,000-mile interstate personnel evacuated network that transports neighbors in about a three- natural gas through Ohio quarter-mile radius around and nine other states. the scene to the Navarre Civic Center on Canal C a l g a r y - b a s e d Street W, Stark County TransCanada acquired Sheriff’s Maj. C.J. Stantz the Columbia system last said. The majority of those year in a $13 billion deal. evacuated were able to TransCanada probably is return to their homes about best known as the company 45 minutes later. behind the controversial Keystone XL crude oil Neighbor Betty Rice heard pipeline. Erie Valley Fire & Rescue was at the scene where a pipeline worker an explosion through was killed and a second worker was injured during maintenance the open windows of her work on a metering station. 16 OhioGas&Oil

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rganized by students, the Marietta College Oil and Gas Technical Exhibition will feature more than 40 companies relevant to the oil and gas industry on campus Friday, Nov. 10. “This event is extremely exciting and valuable for our students because of the number of companies that we could commit to attending in such a short amount of time,” said Evan Levine ‘18 (McDonald, Pennsylvania). “Given the current state of the oil and gas industry, internships have become more competitive, and opportunities to learn about the latest technology can be harder to obtain.”

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Marietta College will host the hands-on oil and gas conference to help advance the knowledge of students in the petroleum, engineering and geology departments. More info can be found at mcogte.org “The goal of this event is to create a networking and hands-on learning environment for students to build on their knowledge of the industry,” Levine said.

He added that there would be a variety of speakers and content being presented while the exhibition floor is open.

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Ohio Gas Plant Developers Primed To

Seize King Coal’s Crown

Jeff Tomich • E&E News here most people traveling south from this small southeast Ohio village see grassy fields and rolling hills alongside Interstate 77, Michael King sees the future of Eastern power markets.

gas pipeline transporting Appalachian shale gas to points east and a high-voltage line moving electricity across the Mid-Atlantic.

He figures the spot is perfect for a new $1.45 billion power plant that will run on gas from King, managing partner of the Marcellus and Utica shale Apex Power Group LLC, formations that underlie the is particularly fixed on 118 area. acres across the I-77 from a highway rest stop. The empty The 1,650-megawatt Guernsey field happens to be adjacent Power Station is the largest to the Rockies Express natural of almost a dozen of this new

breed of power plants being developed across Ohio these days, a number that includes the recently completed Oregon Clean Energy Center, an 870MW plant outside of Toledo.

The wave of development is occurring against the backdrop of relentless lobbying by utilities seeking millions of dollars in subsidies to prop up those same plants, which are struggling to compete in a new world of Together, the plants represent cheap shale gas and eroding about $10 billion of investment electricity demand (Energywire, in new generating capacity that Nov. 7, 2016). will power millions of Ohio homes and, not coincidentally, Small, privately held gas plant ratchet up the pressure on aging developers like Apex Power coal and nuclear plants in the and its partners Caithness region. Energy LLC of New York and Clean Energy Future LLC aren’t

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household names. They don’t employ “If you’re allowing all of these other armies of lobbyists or have the same political generators that theoretically should close to influence as big utilities. remain open, then you’re putting a squeeze on new entry,” he said. But King isn’t short on confidence that projects like his will win out over older, It’s a point that’s front of mind for energy less efficient coal plants as long as power developers like King. “They could literally markets are left to function without political slow down or stop development of new interference. plants for a while because of the signals that are being sent,” he said of the proposed “Where can the small companies compete subsidies. with the big utilities and bring improvements to the system? You’re witnessing it in “At some point, you’ve just got to subsidize Ohio,” he said. “It’s time to accept the fact everybody, or you’ve got to pull the subsidies that you’ve got a new technology and you away and just let the markets work,” King should be taking advantage of it to the said. “If you just let the markets work, we’re benefit of everybody. going to bring a lower-cost solution in the long run.” “We definitely view our plant and our design as the new baseload in PJM,” King The ‘Aha!’ moment said. While capacity reserve margins in the ‘Advantaged economics’ 13-state PJM Interconnection grid continue to widen and energy and capacity prices A central conclusion of last month’s grid lag, gas plant developers like Apex so far study ordered by Energy Secretary Rick haven’t flinched. Perry was that “advantaged economics” of natural gas-fueled power plants were Among all the new gas-fired plants to the main reason for coal and nuclear plant be proposed in Ohio, King believes the retirements (Energywire, Aug. 23). Guernsey project is “one of the most competitive” on the list. As much as any state, the upheaval in Ohio’s electric generation fleet illustrates the trend. “We have a lot of advantages in our economy of scale and size, our location Twenty years ago, coal fueled more than and our gas purchasing capability” and 80 percent of Ohio’s generating capacity, transmission access, he said. according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The most Having begun his career testing the thermal recent EIA data for May show coal’s share efficiency of power plants, he also knew was 57 percent and certain to lose ground to that modern combined-cycle gas plants natural gas in subsequent reports. have improved dramatically in efficiency. Needless to say, existing power plant owners and developers like Apex Power, which are counting on older plants continuing to shut down, are going head to head in an already oversupplied market. How successful utilities are at pushing policy changes in Ohio and rule changes at grid operator PJM Interconnection, which administers the region’s annual capacity auction, will shape how much new generation ultimately gets built, said Paul Patterson, an analyst at Glenrock Associates LLC.

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“The ‘Aha!’ moment for me was a presentation by one of the gas pipeline companies that started telling me how much production had increased, and they were building pipelines and expansion projects and how the Rockies Express was changing directions to east-to-west,” he said. “When we looked at the Guernsey site, within 10 miles of Guernsey Power Station, there’s enough gas in pipelines today to power 35 of those units,” King said. “That makes a bold statement.” The Guernsey plant has yet to be formally approved, but the board staff has recommended approval under a stipulation and agreement filed last month. Developers have proposed to begin construction by the end of the year, with commercial startup in the fall of 2020. Among those anxious to see the power plant take shape is Ron Gombeda, a lifelong Guernsey County resident who leads local economic development efforts. Like elsewhere across the Rust Belt, manufacturing was king in the county for decades. But little by little, companies like Dayton-based NCR Corp., which employed 3,000 in the area, shut down and left the area looking for a new identity. Around 2010, it found one: oil and gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale.

“I’ve never seen an industry take off like that one did,” Gombeda said, describing how the shale boom spurred housing sales and tax receipts, brought new restaurants and hotels to the county and cut the local “The standard design power plant when unemployment rate in half. I began my career in 1982 was 10 units of fuel to get 1 unit of electrical output,” King “But almost as quickly as it came, it went said. “Today we can do 6 ½ units of fuel away,” he said. for 1 unit of electrical output. So we have a considerable efficiency gain in our designs.” It was almost a year ago, just as oil and gas drilling began to pick up again, that King Still, it was more fully understanding the reached out to discuss plans for the power scale of shale gas development in the region plant, which drew strong support at a and investments being made to get gas to public hearing last month. new markets that prompted the company to pursue the Ohio plant.

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$150M in Appalachian NGL Storage Company’s planned investment builds on initial $20 million that brings regional NGL storage project closer to reality.

October 26, 2017 Press Release from Mountaineer NGL Storage LLC

ountaineer NGL Storage, announces $150 million in planned investment over the next three-to-five years in its Clarington, Ohio NGL storage project, creating at least 200 construction jobs.

The regional effort has been largely supported by bipartisan elected officials in Ohio and West Virginia, as well as regional economic development groups and academics. U.S. Congressman Bill Johnson (OH6): “The Appalachian region has the potential to become a major player in the petrochemical and plastic resinproducing industries, one that I believe could rival that of America’s Gulf Coast...I will continue to ensure Congress does not limit this new and growing economic potential, but instead helps to grow it.”

The company, which was the first to invest in regional NGL storage, supports the Tri-State Shale Coalition’s efforts to bring a multi-billion storage and infrastructure projects to the Appalachian region. In fact, the Mountaineer NGL Storage Project is an early catalyst and a key to realizing the Coalition’s regional Appalachian Storage Hub concept and Shawn Bennett, Executive Vice President, opportunities to revitalize manufacturing Ohio Oil and along the Ohio River. Gas Association: “Natural gas Mountaineer NGL Storage has invested liquids storage approximately $20 million to date into its is critical to Appalachian region NGL Storage Project advancing the to secure up to 3.25 million barrels of Appalachian Basin storage capacity that’s scalable to more into a premiere than 10 million barrels. The company p e t r o c h e m i c a l plans to spend $150 million over the next hub that will three to five years and, based on market attract thousands demand, that investment could top $500 of well-paying million in total private capital investment. m a n u f a c t u r i n g jobs to our region. “We’re pleased to see that the support Oil and gas of this regional effort is as strong as it development is is and we believe that the Mountaineer only the first phase NGL Storage Project highlights how in the economic the private sector can take steps to renaissance of address critical storage solutions for the the Appalachian burgeoning petrochemical industry,” region. ” said David Hooker, managing director of Mountaineer NGL Storage. “We think Mountaineer NGL that our investment will encourage Storage, LLC, is a significant additional NGL infrastructure Denver, Coloradosupport in the region as well. We greatly based privately held appreciate the strong support that we energy company have received from regional energy that develops, owns players, including most importantly and operates the Williams and Blue Racer Midstream” Mountaineer NGL GasandOilMag.com

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